RE: [cobalt-users] Mail Problem

["Andrew Witham" <awitham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christian,

Although it will not generate an error message, you can stop messages
destine for one domain being delivered to another by using an alias or a
catch-all alias.

In your example, even though you have 'info@xxxxxxxxxxx' you can ensure that
messages sent to 'info@xxxxxxxxxxx' are received by someone at domain2.com,
either by including the specific alias, say in John's account
'jo@xxxxxxxxxxx' of 'info@xxxxxxxxxxx'.  To stop ALL instances of 'wrong'
addresses, which happen to be on other accounts, include the catch-all
'@domain2.com' in one of the domain2 mailboxes - that way anything addressed
to a domain2.com address which doesn't already exist in domain2.com as an
account or an alias will still be received by a domain2.com mailbox, and not
bounced, or delivered to another domain mailbox, where that domain has a
indentical account name.

I found this to be particularly useful where both domain1.com and
domain2.com have a user (say) John Smith.  Domain1.com defaults his user
name to jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxx   Domain2.com now cannot use account name jsmith
(as it already exists on the server), and so uses jsmith2@xxxxxxxxxxxx  Now
put an alias of jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx in jsmith2's mail account, and
jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx and jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx will receive their correct mail.

By putting the catch-all '@domain2.com' in the jsmith2 mail account, John
now received all mail intended for someone at domain2.com, even where the
email address is old, mis-spelled, or has been guessed, like 'sales', 'info'
etc.

Drew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Christian Papp
> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 6:21 AM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] Mail Problem
>
>
> Hello List,
>
> i have a mail problem with my Raq3i. I hope someone can help.
>
> I have two (and more) Domains. Each Domains has a few users.
>
> -->username = mailadress
>
> Domain1:
> -->mike     = mi@xxxxxxxxxxx
> -->paul     = pa@xxxxxxxxxxx
> -->info	= info@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Domain2:
> -->john     = jo@xxxxxxxxxxx
> -->jeff     = jf@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> If a users sends a mail to info@xxxxxxxxxxx (!!) the mail will be
> stored in
> the mailbox of the user "info".
> The problem is that the user is "info" is at domain1.com. Why is there no
> error message which will be send back to the sender?
>
> Christian
>
>
>
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